With Google Chrome nary a week old and its release analyzed from every. single. angle. I think you don't need analysis or opinion; you need some good old Friday "hey-its-they-day-before-the-weekend!" browser fun.

Textual "links" can be highlighted and drag-and-dropped as well: http://www.searchenginepeople.com Try it!

3) Increase Number of Omnibox Suggestions

Right-click on the shortcut to Google Chrome and choose Properties. In the Shortcut tab add after the target the text -omnibox-popup-count=10 -- or use any other number you'd like.

4) Disable Google Chrome Omnibox

Of course some people don't want to increase or decrease the Omnibox suggestions: they want to get some privacy and get completely rid of the darn thing.

You can.

Right-click in the address bar Omnibox and choose Edit search engines

Then simply uncheck the option to use a suggestion service:

Although it sounds tin-foil hat weird to try to stay private while using a Google browser (helloooo!), Omnibox goes much further than any previous Google user data collection tool:

Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.

What's more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data--and plans to store it along with the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.

In theory, that means that if one were to type the address of a site--even if they decide not to hit enter--they could leave incriminating evidence on Google's servers.

5) Create Multiple User Profiles

In a browser where the very first keystroke you make triggers the display of sites you visited and searches you performed, having multiple user profiles may be a plus.

5 Security & Privacy Issues

1) Google Chrome carpet-bombing flaw

Despite the whole "look how brilliantly careful we are" attitude behind the release, Google Chrome used an outdated, unpatched version of WebKit which makes it vulnerable to so-called carpet-bombing where a user gets to download a JAR file which then gets immediately executed. (read more)

2) Omnibox Indexes Your Bank Account

Google Chrome's Omnibox indexes a little bit too eagerly, it appears, as it gobbles up data on HTTPS connections. Yes, that includes your online bank account, information of which can be found back through the Ombinbox by typing words like "account", "balance", "Visa" etc. (read more)

For now the only way to prevent Omnibox from indexing all content on a HTTPS page is to use Incognito Mode.

3) Omnibox = Pandora's Box

The way Omnibox works, sending information back before anything has been submitted, had some worried. cNet's Ina Fried calls it Pandora's box.

"We are genuinely really worried about the Omnibox thing [] It's just one more piece of the complete puzzle of Google seeing everything that everyone is doing.

I'm astonished that these terms are sent to Google even without the return being hit. That is beyond anything that Google has ever contemplated before.

This is why Google is running into trouble with regulators in Europe. They will trip themselves up at some point very badly. The patience of regulators is growing thin."

4) Content Posted With Google Chrome belongs to Google?

There was indeed that concern, yes, as the End User License Agreement reads:

""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

However, Matt Cutts says this was just a small ooops!-y where the standard EULA was used for this software product (you did know this was in the standard EULA, right?).

I am still very concerned about user privacy issue when using Google chrome. Since it is developed by Google, i suspect that the browser is used to collect personal surfing pattern and datas. What do you guys think?

I don't like google's chrome browser at all, i think i'll be sticking it out with Firefox for quite some time. Another great post, you really throw yourself into these things! Which is great for us readers of course.

oh nice and really long article. but i think there is a long way when they’ll be known as best. to compete firefox they need almost a year firefox plugins and other tweaks can kill any other browser in no time i am doubtful about chrome at the moment. because i know how much firefox penetrated in people’s heart =/

I used Chrome on my pc, but it was quite unstable. However, the website loading speed was excellent. I will try Chrome on the future releases.
BTW: how long it will pass untill we will see Yahoo having it;s own browser ?

I have used the chrome for one day and paid quite good attention for the performance, it is neat and clean, speed is very good both for loading pages and downloading , bookmarking, searching is quite easy, but it is not stabe , crashes easily, it has not any extension such as firefox has. It cannot repalce the firefox in this step, at least for savy people.

Great post. Have not known anything about the pandoras box, before reading this article. Scary that Mr G can see through almost everything I do without a webcam:) What next? As far as I concern , I will stick around FF for a while. By the way, what are your views of IE 8 beta?

I like Chrome. It’s simplistic design. BUT Firefox is like that until you add in the functionality – toolbars, delicious buttons, DIGG etc. I’m interested to see if they can keep the minimal approach when implementing these addons or just throw in tool bars to accomodate everything.

To be true, I was really surprised when Google first announced their Browser launch. Before that, I used to think that Firefox, although owned by Mozilla, was pretty much a Google game. Come on, they never could have manged this far without Google backings (Google even used to promote Firefox through their adsense campaigns, and publishers gained about $1 per download).

However, I think Google now has made their intentions a bit more clear. Its utter dominance they are looking for. Maybe years later we will get to see Google operating systems too (They already have operating systems for mobiles).